Maurizio Cattelan and Marta Papini created an ‘impossible encounter’ in Milan
Carla Tozzi, domus
January 2025
In the newly launched ‘Fashion’ section of Domus, issues 659 from March 1985 and 660 from April 1985, Alessandro Mendini and Pierre Restany discuss the concept of ‘Fashion as art’ and ‘Art as fashion’, explaining their choice to explore the previously overlooked realm of fashion within the magazine. Mendini refers to an ‘anthropological project’ and a reading of fashion ‘just as one does with art’, emphasizing its artistic aspect and its everlasting and ever-faster change. Restany, follows: ‘The time has come when the project dreams of the artist and the designer will travel on the same wavelength’. […]